The white marlin is so prized that it can sometimes earn fishermen $1 million in tournaments. Look over the mantelpiece at lodges and the homes of fishermen and you might even see one of these lean and mean fish, preserved for eternity.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - "Not one person murdered yesterday," Ciudad Juarez's leading newspaper proclaimed in a banner headline.

Armed men are reported to have abducted dozens of students and teachers in the southern Philippines, reports say.

Growing numbers of girls in Senegal are being raped, with abuse often happening while they are at school. "I wanted to be a lawyer, that was my dream," says a young Senegalese girl, smiling.

Three Islamic extremists were found guilty in London on Wednesday of involvement in a foiled 2006 plot to blow up passenger airliners flying between Britain and North America

Every December, the village of Kangete, in eastern Kanya's Nyambene District, gears up for yet another season of festivities - not Christmas, however, but the initiation of hundreds of young men into manhood through circumsion.

Lagos - Amnesty International, a global human rights watchdog, yesterday accused the Nigerian Police of being responsible for hundreds of extra judicial executions, other unlawful killings and enforced disappearences every year.

A year ago, Dispatches told the story of how children in Africa's Niger Delta were being denounced by Christian pastors as witches and wizards, and then killed, tortured or abandoned by their own families. Following the introduction of the Child Rights

As an NBC news anchor and a correspondent covering many of the world's most severe humanitarian crises - from Iraq to Rwanda to Sri Lanka - Ann Curry has established herself as an enormously influential journalist. Since March 2006, Curry has devoted muc

After departing Athens, Greece on October 30th, the Olympic Flame has been traveling across Canada, now about 1/3 of the way into its 106-day, 26,000 km overland relay (another 18,000 km by air).